Re: ICR and its slurs

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Thu, 22 May 1997 13:58:03 -0500

At 01:51 PM 5/22/97 EDT, Jim wrote:
>Rich Knopp wrote:
>
><<Personally, I still understand how some people WITHOUT racist
>predispositions can plausibly correlate a naturalistic and non-theistic
>"survival of the fittest" mentality with racism. Philosophically, the
>problem is how one can ever justify ANY transcending value that would
>condemn a racist attitude.>>
>
>You've hit it dead on, IMO. First, the logic is not only compelling, but
>somehow unavoidable. If one accepts "survival of the fittest" one HAS TO
>conclude that there is a class "less fit." Once that is accepted, it is
>LOGICAL to presume the fitness of one class over another.

How would one determine that one race or class is less fit than another?

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